- Mary C. Brown and the Hollywood Sign
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Mary C. Brown and the Hollywood Sign 
Studio album by Dory Previn Released November 1972 Genre Singer-songwriter Label United Artists Producer Nik Venet Dory Previn chronology Reflections in a Mud Puddle
(1971)Mary C. Brown and the Hollywood Sign
(1972)Live at Carnegie Hall
(1973)Mary C. Brown and the Hollywood Sign was the fourth solo LP by Dory Previn, released in November 1972. This was a thematic album about Hollywood misfits. The songs were intended for a musical revue that ran briefly in Los Angeles. It was planned to stage it on Broadway, but the previews were poor and the show was cancelled before it opened.
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Reception
Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating Allmusic 
[1]Robert Christgau, writing in Creem, panned the album, saying "Previn doesn't just belabor a cliche, she flails it with barbed wire, and she never writes about a concrete situation when with extra words she can falsify it with abstraction."[2]
Track listing
- Mary C. Brown and The Hollywood Sign (4'41)
- The Holy Man On Malibu Bus Number Three (4'45)
- The Midget's Lament (4'07)
- When a Man Wants a Woman (2'25)
- Cully Surroga He's Almost Blind (5'12)
- Left Hand Lost (4'56)
- The Perfect Man (3'11)
- Starlet Starlet On The Screen Who Will Follow Norma Jean? (2'36)
- Don't Put Him Down (3'55)
- King Kong (3'54)
- Medley (8'36)
- Morning Star/Evening Star
- Jesus Was A Androgyne
- Anima/Animus
Personnel
- Laurindo Almeida - guitar
- David Cohen - guitar
- Bryan Garofalo - bass
- John Guerin - drums
- Peter Jameson - guitar
- Tom Keene - keyboards
- Michael Lang - keyboards
- Joe Osborn - bass
- Earl Palmer - drums
- Reinie Press - bass
- Dory Previn - vocals, guitar
- Peggy Sandvig - keyboards
- Ron Tutt - drums
References
- ^ Allmusic review
- ^ "Christgau's Consumer Guide, Creem, April 1973, p.70
Categories:- 1972 albums
- Dory Previn albums
- Albums produced by Nick Venet
- United Artists Records albums
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